Folklore Quote by Jane Yolen

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

— Margaret Halsey

It is important to recognize that folklore is not simply a way of obtaining available date about identity for social scientists; it is actually…

— Alan Dundes

When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.

— Paul Smith

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

— Joseph Campbell

Folklore is artistic communication in small groups.

— Dan Ben-Amos

Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

— Phil Cousineau

Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in…

— Fred Van Lente

“Myths remind us of the symbolic presence within all the lost-and-found adventures that alone can give life meaning. Losing touch with the world of…

— Michael Meade

The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a…

— Charles de Lint

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

— Anne Waldman

Folklore is always changing and evolving for new audiences.

— Tomm Moore

This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.

— John Granger